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SecurityYou can secure your Informix® database server and the data that is stored in your Informix® databases. You can encrypt data, secure connections, control user privileges and access, and audit data security.
Security in HCL Informix®The Informix® Security Guide documents methods for keeping your data secure by preventing unauthorized viewing and altering of data or database objects, including how to use the secure-auditing facility of the database server.
Securing data
Connection securityYou can administer the security of the connections to the database server by using authentication and authorization processes.
Authentication module deployment
Client APIs and authentication support modulesOnly specific HCL Informix® client APIs support PAM and LDAP Authentication Support modules. To use the other APIs when an authentication module is enabled on Informix®, you can connect to a DBSERVERALIASES.

Client APIs and authentication support modules

Only specific HCL Informix® client APIs support PAM and LDAP Authentication Support modules. To use the other APIs when an authentication module is enabled on Informix, you can connect to a DBSERVERALIASES.

The following HCL Informix client APIs support PAM and LDAP Authentication Support modules:

ESQL/C
ODBC
JDBC

The other APIs do not support PAM and LDAP Authentication Support modules. To use them against a version of Informix that has an enabled authentication module, connect to a DBSERVERALIASES that does not have the PAM parameters in the sqlhosts file.

The following client APIs, tools, and applications do not support PAM or LDAP Authentication Support modules:

LibC++
Client DataBlade® API
OLE DB
Visual Basic Applications using ODBC
Ilogin and ODBC Test connection

For more information about ESQL/C, ODBC, and JDBC, see the Informix ESQL/C Programmer's Manual, the Informix ODBC Driver Programmer's Manual, and the Informix JDBC Driver Programmer's Guide.

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